Citation

Bateman, Fred, and Foust, James D. Agricultural and Demographic Records of 21,118 Rural Households Selected from the 1860 Manuscript Censuses. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 1992-02-16. https://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR09117.v1

Summary

Demographic, occupational and economic information for over
21,000 rural households in the northern United States in 1860 is
provided in this dataset. The data were obtained from the manuscript
agricultural and population schedules of the 1860 United States Census.
Variables include farm values, livestock inventories, and crop
production figures for the households that owned or operated farms
(over half the households in the study), as well as values of real and
personal estate, color, sex, age, literacy, school attendance,
occupation, place of birth, and parents' nationality of all individuals
residing in the sampled households.

Citation

Bateman, Fred, and Foust, James D. Agricultural and Demographic Records of 21,118 Rural Households Selected from the 1860 Manuscript Censuses. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 1992-02-16. https://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR09117.v1

Subject Terms

Geographic Coverage

Time Period(s)

1860

Data Collection Notes

In this hierarchical dataset each household has three
separate record types. There is one "A" record per household,
containing farm and livestock statistics, . Each household has one or
more "B" records, which provide information on crop production, and
one or more "C" records, containing demographic information on
household members. For the total sample of 21,118 households, there are
three or more records per case, depending on the number of "B" and
"C" records for a given household. There are 16 variables for the
"A" records, a maximum of approximately 77 variables for the "B"
records, and a minimum of five variables for the "C" records. An
earlier version of this collection, AGRICULTURAL AND DEMOGRAPHIC
RECORDS FOR RURAL HOUSEHOLDS IN THE NORTH, 1860 (ICPSR 7420), is
available in rectangular format.

Sample

A two-stage variable-cluster sample design was used. A
random sample of 102 counties in 16 northern states was drawn. From
each of these counties one nonurban township was randomly selected.
Census records from all households in the selected townships were
included in the study.